Inverse cascade and intermittency of passive scalar in 1d smooth flow

Details Inverse cascade and intermittency of passive scalar in 1d smooth flow Inverse cascade and intermittency of passive scalar in 1d smooth flow

1997-06-12

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9706017v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

21 pages, RevTex 3.0

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.56.5483

Random advection of Lagrangian tracer scalar field $\theta (t,x)$ by a one-dimensional, spatially smooth and short-correlated in time velocity field is considered. Scalar fluctuations are maintained by a source concentrated at the integral scale $L$. The statistical properties of both scalar differences and the dissipation field are analytically determined, exploiting the dynamical formulation of the model. The Gaussianity known to be present at small scales for incompressible velocity fields emerges here at large scales ($x\gg L$). These scales are shown to be excited by an inverse cascade of $\theta ^{2}$ and the probability distribution function (PDF) of the corresponding scalar differences to approach the Gaussian form, as larger and larger scales are considered. Small scales ($x\ll L$) statistics is shown to be strongly non-Gaussian. Collapse of scaling exponents for scalar structure functions\thinspace takes place: moments of order $p\ge 1$ scale all linearly, independently of the order $p$. Smooth scaling $x^{p}$ is found for $-1

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